On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Josh Suereth <[email protected]>wrote:
> I believe the core of ExtJS is now MIT licenesed (the widgets being GPL > with Commercial licenses available). You could potentially build the Ajax > calls on top of this (as long as you stay away from ui components). Then > users who have bought an ExtJS subscription (like my company) would have a > much easier time moving to lift! I believe the ExtJS core supports many of > the same operations as jQuery's core. > Josh, Feel free (encouraged, even) to do the ExtJS core layer for Lift... just ping me privately for the specifics of being a Lift committer. Thanks, David > > - Josh > > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Charles F. Munat <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I haven't used Ext.Direct yet, but I am currently building a site (three >> sites, really) that uses Ext JS 3.0 for the front end. >> >> One site is essentially a CRUD app. The back end is a PostgreSQL >> database. The middle layer is a Lift app that uses JPA/Hibernate to >> access the database. It provides a REST interface to the data that >> accepts and returns JSON. (I've hand written this but must learn more >> about Lift's JSON capabilities.) >> >> The front end is pure Ext JS. All connections to the database are via >> AJAX-like calls (AJAJ?). The REST interface is pretty pure, using only >> GET, PUT, and DELETE. >> >> (I like idempotency, so I don't use POST. The back end generates UUIDs >> and prepopulates the add forms with a UUID, then the create calls use >> the same URL as the update calls. If the object with that ID already >> exists, it is updated. If it doesn't, it is created. Thus all calls are >> idempotent. This also improves security, as you're, um, unlikely to >> guess a UUID.) >> >> I'd be happy to talk to you about this. It's still in the early stages, >> but I have to debut it in a couple weeks if not sooner (what's new?), so >> I'll be zooming through the front end stuff over the next few days. >> >> I plan for all future sites that I build in Lift to follow a similar >> pattern on the front end. >> >> Chas. >> >> Naftoli Gugenheim wrote: >> > Has anyone used lift with Ext.JS forms/Ext.Direct? >> > >> > >> > P.S. It would be neat if it could interact with Lift's JSON support. I >> wonder what it would take. >> > >> > >> > > >> > >> >> >> > > > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Git some: http://github.com/dpp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
